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11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling

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Why critics scorned Beryl Cook’s ‘saucy’ paintings

Jolly, kitsch and bawdy, Beryl Cook’s paintings were loved by the British public but derided by the art establishment. One hundred years after her birth,

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A moving, tragic biopic of a tortured jazz great ★★★★☆

Bill Evans was a boundary-breaking US pianist who contended with multiple personal tragedies, and a serious drug problem. This new drama about him will draw

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The Addams Family to St Elmo’s Fire: 12 of the best alternative romantic films

Alamy Julie & Julia (2009) Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you might not think

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This bold reinvention of Emily Brontë’s novel is ‘sexy, dramatic and swoonily romantic’

Robbie turns up in the first of many bright red-and-white dresses, and her performance is magnificent, making Cathy wild and selfish but with a conscience,

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How Wuthering Heights became this year’s most divisive film

In the trailer, Robbie is seen doing some highly suggestive breadmaking, her cheeks flushed and her bodice heaving, as she remembers Elordi’s naked torso. Then

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Why ‘masterpiece’ Wuthering Heights is so misunderstood

Heathcliff lives a life of torment and uncontainable grief, but inflicts that suffering on everyone around him and feels no remorse in doing so. By

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10 of the best films to watch this February

Universal Pictures 9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert When Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of boxes of unseen documentary footage.

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‘Sweet and tender’ or ‘like abuse’? Why gay BDSM ‘romcom’ Pillion is dividing opinion

Though Bisbey praises Pillion as “one of the most authentic depictions of a leather relationship I’ve seen on screen”, she also suggests it’s missing a

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Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece

Nannie and her cohorts aren’t pleased to hear it: Tam has to flee on horseback with a crowd of screeching witches in hot pursuit, “Wi’